netdev - Re: [PATCH] LRO ack aggregation

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Date:	Mon, 19 Nov 2007 22:22:14 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au
Cc:	gallatin@...i.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, ossthema@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] LRO ack aggregation

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 14:09:18 +0800

> David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
> >
> > Fundamentally, I really don't like this change, it batches to the
> > point where it begins to erode the natural ACK clocking of TCP, and I
> > therefore am very likely to revert it before merging to Linus.
> 
> Perhaps make it a tunable that defaults to off?

That's one idea.

But if it's there the risk it to have it end up being turned on
always by distribution vendors, making our off-default pointless
and the internet gets crapped up with misbehaving Linux TCP
stacks anyways.
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